The Academy For Modding Excellence announces special rules for NWN2 Author Recognition awards.
Posted on 2008 under Award Specific | 4 Comments15 Jan
The Academy for Modding Excellence will be handling the author recognition awards for NWN2 slightly differently this year, as it is the first year. Normally, we have a veteran award for those who have also produced work in previous years, and a debut award available for all other authors. In order to ensure everyone is eligible for an award, but to help level the playing field, we have split these two awards for NWN2 as follows:
The Veteran Author Award will be given to authors who have produced a work in NWN2 in the current cycle, but have also produced work in NWN1 in previous years. (Submissions for Bioware’s original Writer’s competition do not count, due to the highly restrictive rules of that competition, but all other modules do)
The Debut Author Award will be given to authors who have produced their first work for NWN2 in this cycle, and did not author anything for NWN1.
This will be an exception only for this year.
To find out why we decided to do this, head over to the forums.
by Alex "Hugie" Hugon, on January 15 2008 @ 4:21 pm
Sounds logical enough to me. 🙂
by Pigwig, on January 16 2008 @ 12:06 am
Questions: Do you guys evaluate only those works with consents of the authors or is the entire nwvault your playing field? If its the latter case, I’m wondering what gives you the right to set yourselves up as “credible body” (your wording) of judges of other people’s works, and do you consider the people who voted on submissions at nwvault as uncredible? If no one gives you the right, shouldn’t your prizes be something more tangible than a recognition label? If you have no recognition of authority as judges, your prizes should be tangible like money/product prizes because those tangible prizes would be your authority, like a private scholarship fund. Granting simply a cheap label without a recognition of authority makes you a little pompous. Ok, make that totally pompous.
Also, do you exclude judging your own submissions, considering that you are a “credible body” of judges?
by admin, on January 16 2008 @ 4:58 am
To Pigwig:
Yes, our playing field it is the entire vault.. not an easy task if you realice, thanks god we have a clue when people votes on vault.. and i’m sure that we have the same RIGHTS as them to judge (we don’t judge, we vote and decide as a team) any submission/entry.
AME is a voluntary team which handles a lot of work, i don’t know if we are a “credible body” or “the perfect judges” but the team is currently formed with great nwn authors, people that have been developing nwn/nwn2 for many years and most of all very “neutral” people. You can check out our biographies on forum… can you judge them as a “credible body” then?
Our prizes cannot be tangible as well you cannot receive money from a NWN work, you should realice that even Obsidian with his contests cannot give prizes (only small presents) because of the high taxes they should pay when doing a contest (aah, american laws). The AME is trying to be nwn worldwide and we don’t receive any money for test, discuss and work all the vault entries. It isn’t enough prize to be recogniced for another modding group as the best? That helps to the final author.
And finally, yes. We exclude our own submissions when choosing or voting, but that doesn’t mean an AME member couldn’t win a Golden Dragon.
by BenWH, on January 16 2008 @ 7:38 am
You can find more on our goals and aims here: http://www.ame-gda.net/ame-home/?page_id=3 and here: http://nwvault.ign.com/static.php?page=AME . If a member’s work is nominated, they can take no further part in that category’s awards process.
As for credibility, the Golden Dragons are Vault sanctioned and our rules and guidelines were first checked by the Vault. The GDs don’t overrule community voting or the Mod of the Year competitions – they are different. Apart from anything we choose based on categories, but have no ‘best overall’ category.
As for credible, well that’s up to you to choose of course. If it helps you find the best of what you’re looking for, that’s what counts.